Cian T. McMahon, PhD

Really looking forward to this event next week! I can’t wait to learn from @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. This promises to be another great @iehs.bsky.social online book event! Registration details 👇🏽

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@costelkh.bsky.social and I were delighted to see our @routledgehistory.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social History of Irish America warmly reviewed by Bill Mulligan in the latest issue of the Irish Literary Supplement!

50% OFF The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States Today the United States considers immigration a federal matter. Yet, despite America's reputation as a 'nation of immigrants,' the Constitution is silent on the admission, exclusion, an...

I haven't really taken to audiobooks yet for scholarly works, but lots of my colleagues and students like the format, and this is an excellent reading of my book by the acclaimed voice actor Bill Andrew Quinn @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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We treat Channel crossings today as exceptional, and the RNLI is called a "migrant taxi service." However, people have long sought refuge across the Channel. On this day in 1939, two German refugees were rescued in the Channel by the RNLI and brought to safety in the UK.

***Save the Date!***

The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is excited to hold the next virtual mentorship event on Thursday, October 2 from 5:00PM to 6:15PM EST. The event is open to graduate students, early career historians, and independent scholars.

Stay tuned!

Abstract. During the nineteenth century female Irish religious orders established missions across the Irish diaspora which were designed with flexibility and adaptation in mind. The Sisters of Mercy’s personal letter networks allowed these women, who were often very young, to continue their religious and technical “apprenticeship” while abroad. These letters enabled women in the diaspora to maintain a sense of consistency and belonging across the oceans: with their sisters in Ireland and elsewhere in the world on an ethnic and institutional level. Engaging with these letters as both intimate conversations and professional reflections presents opportunities for investigating how long-distance institutional memory was developed and a continuing connection to Ireland and Irishness maintained. This article moves the focus of ethnic culture brokers from the priest and bishop to the formal and informal networks of women religious who worked within a system designed for men. In doing so, it demonstrates that these letters provided an important extra layer to public global Irish networks, a layer which acted as both a whisper network and an opportunity for reflection on efficient methods for varied work in large, fluctuating, and cross-class ethnic communities

Very happy that 'Blue Sunglasses and New Habits: Female Correspondence Networks and the Irish Religious Diaspora' is now out as part of a great double issue
@iehs.bsky.social Journal of American Ethnic History ed. by Cian McMahon & Darragh Gannon
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Spot on!

Ferriter reminds us that the people burning immigrants in effigy last week are descendants of those who fled Ulster with hopes for better lives in the mid-eighteenth century.

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award Visit the post for more.

***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history***

Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:

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Join me and Omar Valerio-Jiménez with Hongdeng Gao for a discussion of immigration histories and politics (and our books!) on August 12!

Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

The use of citizenship to order power in the United States isn't new. It has a long and troubling history.

Today is publication day for a new scholarship on this topic.
Maddalena Marinari and I --with five superb historians-- share.

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NYUP editors, Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, explore the captivating rituals of Irish and Italian emigration to the US in their new @irishtimes.com essay! From "American wakes" to frog bread charms, discover how people made sense of monumental journeys.

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Terrific book, buy it for your Irish or Italian families!

The cover of the latest bokk on the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move," edited by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, showing an image of an Italian family preparing to depart and and Irish family reading a letter from America.

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...

Really exciting to see excellent article in *Irish Times* last week on a new edited volume to which I had the privilege of contributing a chapter. Written by the fearless co-editors @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social #IrishStudies

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Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish and Italians handled emigration to the US The editors of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move highlight two great diasporas’ differences and similarities

🗃️"Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish & Italians handled emigration to the US" by the editors of a new collection "Rituals of Migration" @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @tedsmyth.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Open Call View the 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellows Open Call Here and apply The PRRI Public Fellows program, founded in 2017, promotes and supports interdisciplinary public scholarship through a cohort of…

The open call for the 2025-2026 cohort of Public Religion Research Institute ( @prri.org ) Public Fellows is now live!

PRRI seeks 12 mid-career scholars interested in the intersection of religion, culture, and politics for an 11-month, non-residential fellowship. Due 7/25/25.

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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

***Apply for Awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)***

The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

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This is great, Anna, cannot wait to see it in print, can see it will make important contributions to multiple historical genres that are often studied separately. Way to go!!!

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‘She left an indelible mark’ | ClarkU News Colleagues remember Professor Amy Richter

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#Skystorians we’ve lost a friend and a great scholar, Amy Richter of Clark University. Please repost.

My chapter in “Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move” (out this month with @nyupress.bsky.social) looks at the “Returned Yank” in literary representations of Irish return migration. 1/4 @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

Rob, this is hugely exciting, congratulations! I published an article in IHS in 2009 on Irish popular press reactions to the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. Interesting echoes of your new article! Way to go!

This article wouldn’t be possible without the groundbreaking work of scholars of Irish America like @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social, and of German America like Alison Clark Efford and @honeckmischa.bsky.social

Irish Americans made the Franco-Prussian war a cause célèbre - one claimed the ‘Irish people have a quarrel of seven hundred years to fight out with England - now the underhand ally of Prussia’ and ‘should wish success to France, which has always been their friend and the foe of England’

“I can always come back”: Supporting Undergraduate Experiences in Special Collections with the Burns Library First-Year Writing Pilot Program Beginning last fall, Burns Library hosted a new instruction initiative for first-year writing classes. Collaborating with the First-Year Writing seminar program (FWS) and O’Neill librarians, the Bu…

When @bostoncollege.bsky.social first-year writing students entered Burns this year, they encountered collection materials spanning the 14th century to the present. Read more abt our collaborative pilot program welcoming freshman to Burns to engage with rare books and archives! tinyurl.com/3xjj87vz